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Using simulation to predict defects in and evaluate properties of die-cast Al-alloy castings
Morávková, Jitka ; Nová, Iva (referee) ; Čech, Jaroslav (advisor)
The purpose of this diploma thesis is comparing the quantity of porosity in die-cast aluminium casting with using simulation. The cast engine blocks were made by high pressure die-casting and a local squeeze casting (LSC) technology. There was also examined the relationship between porosity and mechanical properties of castings. There were evaluated and compared the results of my own measurements with data from previous students theses at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering BUT. All data were tested by statistical tests. The comparison of simulation results and experimentally measured values was found a good programme-ability to simulate and estimate porosity.
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Application of fly ashes from fluid bed coal combustion within refractory materials
Kotrla, Jan ; Bartoníčková, Eva (referee) ; Šoukal, František (advisor)
The thesis deals with the possibility of utilization of fluid ash in refractory materials and its influence on resulting properties. This work studies the effect of bed and filter ash addition on properties of the droplet and resulting mechanical properties, bulk density, shrinkage and firing temperature of stove fireclay. The subject of this thesis is also reduction of SO2 emissions evolved burning of fireclay containing fluid ash rich of anhydrite. Emissions of SO2 were observed by TG-TDA-EGA method. Characterization of prepared samples and study of heat treatment processes was based on XRD, TG-DTA-EGA, TDA, SEM–EDS, heating microscope and isothermal calorimetry.
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New Aluminium Alloys in Aircraft Structures
Przeczek, Jan ; Šplíchal, Jan (referee) ; Klement, Josef (advisor)
This bachelor work deals with newly developed wrought aluminium alloys, designed for application in aerospace industry. The task of that work is to compare recent aircraft aluminium alloys with conventional alloys and indicate direction of progress in this field. The comparison is particularly focused on improvement of mechanical and/or technological properties of these alloys.
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Evaluation of porosity in gravity - cast Al - alloy castings
Staňková, Markéta ; Nová, Iva (referee) ; Čech, Jaroslav (advisor)
Solving of this diploma thesis is evaluation porosity in sequence on mechanical properties from different Al alloys. Castings were made by gravity casting to the iron-mould or gravity casting to the sand. Measurements (mechanical properties, porosity, DAS - dendrite arm spacing, shape factors and sphericity) were statistically analysed and dependencies which were detected were processed to the graphs.
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Heat treatment of formed parts
Poloch, Milan ; Peterková, Eva (referee) ; Lidmila, Zdeněk (advisor)
Bachelor thesis focusing on heat treatment of formed parts. The chapter of basic termsdeals with steels for forming. Concrete formability and influence on plastic deformationson steel properties, influence of chemical composition, structural composition and termomechanical conditions during deformation. In the larger parts of the thesis are carriedout heat treatment. The prohibited concepts of heat treatment are explained in the in-troductory question and some follow the basic methods and then the basic methods ofheat treatment such as annealing and tempering with tempering are explained. All ofthese technologies have their own subchapters and are illustrated and supplemented withgraphs and figures. The practical amount consists of plastic deformations of roller-shaped samples. The samples were deformed, measured hardness, heat treatment followed bymeasured hardness. Changes of mechanical properties on samples are evaluated.
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The Influence of the Isothermal Transformation Dwell on the Structure and Mechanical Properties of ADI
Falta, Petr ; Kohout, Jan (referee) ; Věchet, Stanislav (advisor)
The thesis ,,The Influence of Transformation dwell on the Structure and Mechanical Properties of ADI´´ deals with problems of optimal properties of the unalloyed nodular cast iron, which are obtained by the heat treatment. The heat treatment consists of austenitization and then rapidly quenching to the transformation temperature, isothermal transformation and water cooling in the end. The aim of the thesis is focused on estimating the influence of isothermal transformation on the content of stabilized austenite, static mechanical properties and on the fatigue properties in high-cycle fatigue region for selected samples. The theoretical part of this work analyses the production of the nodular cast iron and its possibilities of the heat treatment, final technological and mechanical properties. Furthermore, it examines the conditions of austempering (temperature and time of isothermal dwell), which has a fundamental influence on mechanical properties of ADI. Problems of fatigue properties are described at the end of this part. The experimental part contains a chemical composition of studied samples and their metallographic analysis. Among others the basic mechanical static properties were determined as well as the Wöhler curves including values of fatigue limits for ten on seventh cycles. Wöhler curves were obtained by a mathematical processing using data reached by fatigue tests.
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Influence of degassing parameters on quality of Al castings
Jeřábek, Petr ; Horenský, Jiří (referee) ; Vašťák, Patrik (advisor)
This master’s thesis is focused on optimalization of degassing parameters in the foundry plant and effect of these parameters on mechanical properties of Al-Si alloys. In practical part is used factorial experiment to research effect of degassing parameters on mechanical properties and dichte index. After optimalization the new process is validated by comparing with the previous one. This experiment was taken on AlSi7Mg0,6 alloy in foundry plant MESIT foundry, a.s.
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Atomic force microscopy of soft materials
Šudáková, Anna ; Havlíková, Martina (referee) ; Smilek, Jiří (advisor)
This bachelor thesis focuses on atomic force microscopy (AFM), mainly on studying the measurement procedure and optimalization of measurement conditions with future perspective on imaging hydrogels and measuring mechanical properties (such as adhesion or stiffness) of hydrogels and semi-rigid materials at the microlevel. Atomic force microscopy is gaining significant importance in research due to its versatility, when it can provide topographical image of conductive and non-conductive samples while measuring mechanical properties of the samples, such as adhesion, elasticity or stiffness. Advantage of AFM method is that it can provide mechanical properties of the samples not only on macro levels as we are used to, for example, from rheology, but also on local level. Optimalization was performed on standard sample, one micrometre polystyrene nanoparticles , when the individual modes were measured, such as non-contact (AC Mode Imaging) mode and quantitative mode (QITM Advanced Imaging). This was followed by the measurement of a PVA foils, the measurement was performed because they are xerogels and will be studied more in the future. They were made with polyvinyl alcohol and chitosan. The internal environment of the hydrogels has been modified by adjusting the pH (NaOH) or by changing the ionic strength (NaCl). Furthermore, the effect of freezing on the PVA foils was observed, it is one of the possible ways of preparation of physically linked hydrogels. This work also examines the effect of porosity on concentration of physically linked thermoreversible agarose gels.
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Quantification of Hydraulic Descaling Mechanisms
Hrabovský, Jozef ; Toman,, Zdeněk (referee) ; Dobeš, Ferdinand (referee) ; Horský, Jaroslav (advisor)
The issue of descaling is an important part of the forging and heat treatment of steel and semi products of steel production. Rising of new information and study of this process can increase efficiency and improve the surface quality after descaling. This thesis is focused on the mechanisms of the high pressure hydraulic descaling qualification and study of the chemical compounds of which the scales grown. To achieve all goals of this work and to get a comprehensive view of descaling process, few experimental measurements and numerical analyses were performed. All experimental measurements were focused on obtaining data about fundamental parameters and effects of the hydraulic descaling. The data obtained from measurements were applied to numerical analyses, which aimed to discover a deeper relation and to confirm the experimental results. This thesis can be divided into two main parts. The first part is devoted to parameters of the water jet study. The main studied characteristics of the high pressure hydraulic water jet were heat transfer coefficient and impact pressure at different modes such as standard or pulsating water jet. Experimentally measured data of these parameters were applied in numerical analyses. The numerical analyses were focused on studying the impact of the water jet parameters on the stresses in the oxide scale layers. A further water jet analysis was focused on the influence of the individual parts of the hydraulic system (such as water chamber or stabilizer) on its characteristics. In this part different types of the water chambers in combination with different types of stabilizers on the impact pressure values were investigated. These measurements were supported by fluid flow analysis through the hydraulic system. The second part of this work was focused on getting mechanical properties of the oxide scales from specimens prepared from standard structural steel and specimens from silicon steel. In this thesis, the influence of various parameters and characteristics was studied on these two types of steel. Mechanical properties of oxide scale structures were carried out by the Small Punch Test method. To obtain the fundamental mechanical properties such as Young´s modulus, yield strength and ultimate strength, material parameters based on the measured data were optimized. The whole work was carried out in order to get valuable and comprehensive results about high pressure hydraulic descaling process and influencing factors as well as about oxide scales themselves.
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Stress strain analysis of the femur based on the CT data collection
Nečas, David ; Marcián, Petr (referee) ; Vosynek, Petr (advisor)
The area of clinical biomechanics is a rapidly growing engineering discipline in the world of today. This master's thesis is concerned with the stress-strain analysis of human femoral neck. In the first place it emphasizes the creation of computational model, especially the model of bone material, because of its high level of inhomogeneity. The creation of the computational model has been tested using several software packages, which are often mentioned in connection with the biomechanical tasks. The latter part of the thesis contains finite element method analysis for several material models, which are based on extensive analysis of relations used to transfer the information from computed tomography data to material model properties. Subsequently, the realization of experimental measurement is described. The final part of the thesis contains evaluated results obtained from the FEM analysis, which are also compared with the experiment.
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